twonkie /twon'kee/ n.
The software equivalent of a Twinkie (a variety of
sugar-loaded junk food, or (in gay slang with a small t) the male
equivalent of `chick'); a useless `feature' added to look sexy
and placate a marketroid
(compare Saturday-night
special). The term may also be related to "The Twonky",
title menace of a classic SF short story by Lewis Padgett (Henry
Kuttner and C. L. Moore), first published in the September 1942
"Astounding Science Fiction" and subsequently much
anthologized.